com : We’re
kicking off our yearly series of monthly reporting missions to a
different city in our Europe-wide network

11 cities, 11 special
city editions of feature reports, 11 local debates

BERLIN, GERMANY: 20 to 23 MAY 2010

Step
1: what’s it about

WHAT IS IT: This year, we will
continue our monthly editorial series, ‘EU Crisis on the ground’ (funded
by the European commission).TO DO WHAT: Valorising local,
positive citizen initiatives that have emerged out of the crisis.
Comparing this on a pan-European playing field. Finding young, positive
angles on the crisis.

Step 2: recruiting you

WANTED:
We need three journalists, one video maker and one photographer to join
this mission - writing on aforesaid offbeat, crisis-related topics with
the support of our local host team in Germany, and attending a local
debate held by the team in Berlin.It’s your proposals that will
get you noticed for this mission: so be creative, do some research, flog
your idea donkeys to me. Prepare yourself: read the Berlin local team
blog

Step 3: you on EU crisis on the ground

LOGISTICS:
Book your own flights/ trains to Berlin: up to 250 euro is reimbursed
by cafebabel.com upon return from the trip, along with other travel,
food expenses up to 25 euro every day (figures TBC). The team is hosted
by the locals in Berlin.EDITORIAL: the editor in Paris and the
team in Berlin will help define your article, find you fixers,
interviewees for your time in the city. The written piece is due in
strictly one week later, when the relevant linguistic editor in Paris
will edit your piece, which will be translated by our volunteer
networks, and then published the following month.:
email Roberto at with your
CVs, three-line article proposals, link with the news and crisis, ideas
of interviewees